Spy shots of the BlackBerry 10 L-series handset begin to crop up

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With RIM’s impending re-entry into the smartphone wars, spy shots have surfaced of the new BlackBerry 10 handset that will purportedly hit the market on January 30. The BlackBerry London, or L-series as it’s also referred to, is pictured with an all-black chassis and large display charging comfortably next to the relatively smaller-sized iPhone 5. This is the first leak where we've been able to see what the handset might look like.

The photo was posted by India-based BlackBerry fan site BBin and gives a fresh glimpse into RIM's revamping of its BlackBerry identity. Unlike its predecessors, this smartphone has a much bigger display and no hardware buttons. The phone looks like it will offer more screen real estate than the iPhone 5 it's pictured with, though without an inkling of what the operating system will look like, there’s no way to gauge whether or not the screen will have to make room for directional buttons.

The new BlackBerry L-series is also rumored to come equipped with a 4.2-inch 1280×768 pixel resolution display, dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, a microSD slot, and an 8-megapixel rear camera. We'll post more details as more information is made available.